FLEX™

What if success gave you more of your life back?

More time to travel. More freedom to pursue your passions. More energy for your relationships. More ability to build meaningful projects, create new income streams, and make a positive impact on the world.

That is what we call a Liberated Life™

For Kim and me, that means traveling roughly six months of the year, operating our businesses in about two or three focused workdays per week, continuing to grow our wealth, and having the freedom to spend more of our time on the things we genuinely care about.

We are not retired. We are still ambitious, still building, still growing our businesses and still creating. We just want our success to give us more freedom, not more obligations.

Freedom Creates Space for Passion

One of the most powerful things about financial liberation is that your interests no longer have to immediately become jobs.

Kim is a great example. She has been able to dedicate serious time to growing her art career, developing her style, creating new work, and building a brand around something she genuinely loves.

Could her art eventually become a significant income stream? Absolutely, and that is part of what we are building. But she does not need every piece of art to pay the mortgage today.

That freedom matters. 

It gives her room to experiment, improve, create, and build something meaningful without forcing it to become profitable before it has had time to grow.

For Isaac, he was born to be an explorer! Living the Liberated Life has allowed Isaac to put in the time to create and travel 3-6 month epic road trips every year, visiting 42 of the 63 US National Parks, living in Europe for 3 months at a time, watching volcanos actively erupt in Hawaii, and so much more.

The same idea applies to almost anything. Maybe you want to write a book, start a nonprofit, build a new business, learn a new skill, travel for several months, spend more time with your kids, or work on a cause that matters to you.

Financial liberation gives your passions room to breathe.

We Built Our Business Around Our Life

Our Liberated Life™ did not happen overnight.

Years ago, Kim was working more than 50 hours a week as a Veterinary Technician. I had more flexibility, but I was still largely trading time for money. We both knew we wanted something different.

We wanted to travel. We wanted more control over our schedules. We wanted meaningful work, financial security, and enough freedom to enjoy the life we were working so hard to build.

So we started by asking a different question:

What do we actually want our life to look like?

Then we worked backwards.

We figured out what that lifestyle would cost, looked at the skills we already had, and built LocalFi into a location-independent business.

But we eventually learned that working remotely was not enough. You can work 50 hours a week from a beautiful beach and still be trapped by your business. The scenery improves, but the problem remains.

The real breakthrough came from building systems.

We documented what we did, created repeatable processes, trained a team, automated what we could, and gradually removed ourselves from work that did not require us.

That is what gave us back our time.

Today, Full Time to Travel Time is the continuing story of that experiment: Can we become increasingly successful while simultaneously becoming increasingly free?

So far, for the last 8 years, the answer has been yes!

Building a Liberated Life™ Together

Building this kind of life as a couple adds another layer because you are not designing one life. You are designing two lives that need to work together.

Kim and I learned early that building a business together does not mean we should (or would) be good at the same things.

When we first started LocalFi, Kim was in sales because she’s an extrovert and was naturally social and great with people. I stayed more behind-the-scenes because I was the technical expert and more introverted.

It seemed logical, but it was wrong.

Over time, we discovered that Kim was exceptional at operations, organization, culture, and building systems. I discovered that I was much stronger at sales, strategy, and long-term relationship building than either of us expected.

Once we stopped trying to fit ourselves into the roles we thought we were supposed to have, the business started working much better.

That lesson became much bigger than business.

For couples, building a Liberated Life™ means understanding what each person is naturally good at, what gives each person energy, what you want to build together, and how your business and finances can support that life instead of consuming it.

That is one of the areas we are most passionate about helping other couples work through.

Your Liberated Life™ Will Look Different Than Ours

And that’s the point!

Maybe your version of freedom means traveling for six months a year. Maybe it means working three days a week. Maybe it means having summers with your kids, spending part of the year abroad, starting a business with your partner, or having enough financial breathing room to finally pursue a project you have been thinking about for years.

There is no single version of a Liberated Life™.

The goal is not to copy ours.

The goal is to create enough financial, time, and personal freedom that you have more control over how you spend your life.

You can still build wealth. You can still build businesses. You can still be ambitious.

You simply do not have to postpone experiencing your life while you are doing it.

That is FLEX™.

Financially Liberated, Experiencing Life